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Well, I have been on holidays for a week already...it seems like so much less, but we still have till Wednesday next week, so I am not even half through my holidays.
The crappy thing is, I won't be getting holidays again, until September, because I will miss out on the Summer holidays here, and I will miss the Winter holidays too.

Today it is my host-father's (Christoph's) birthday. We all slept in, because...everyone loves sleeping in, and then we ate breakfast at 12. It was quite nice, but just like a normal breakfast, just with some presents. Us kids, we gave him a book, which we all contributed money to, and he also got some chocolate and beer from my host-mother's (Ursula's) mother.
Now I am sitting here.

During the holidays I have hung around here at home, talked with people, gone to the city with friends, gone jeans shopping with Caro and Johannes...done quite a few things, compared to what I have done in Schoenebeck.

On Thursday Caro and I were picked up by our grandmother and we both travelled to their house to stay with them for a while.
It was really fun, the grandparents are really nice, if not a little bit embarassing. (Hey, but whose grandparents aren't?)
We bought some food, got to the ouse, ate, looked at photos from the family when they were younger, ate, watched TV, ate some more.
As a general rule, you eat alot at that house.

We went to some crazy stone place on Friday, it was OK, but a little...I don't know. It took ages to do everything, when it could have taken less time. Frustrating. And it's not like it was completely interesting, but we walked around and looked at heaps of things, then went to the top of this giant tower and saw the region.
I tell you, this region of Germany is so much more beautiful as the other one. It's like you would imagine it, rolling countrysides...hills, rivers, small towns. Green. And heaps of those "typical" German houses.
We also visited some relatives, but I am not sure who they were exactly. They were nice, and when we visited them, I was in yet another state of Germany, Nordrhein Westfalen, I think it's called. I didn't realise, and then...i don't know. It's just so cool.
We got home, ate, watched TV.

Yesterday we went out and lunch together on the top of this hill, it is called "Schaumburg." It's pretty, to sit there and eat and look down at the countryside. And the food was really good as well. It was funny, because Caro and I ate almost the same thing. Well, we ate the same thing, just drunk something different.
Seriously, Caro and I are so similar it is scary.
Then we got home, got in a train and travelled back to Braunschweig.

In the train we made a list...deadlines, we called it. A list of all the things that we want to do together, while I am here. Included is things from seeing Dresden, a really old city, to baking fortune cookies together to going to the 1€ Bar.
We also thought about getting out of the train, as we stopped in Hannover, and looking around Hannover for an hour. But, we decided against it, and decided to add Hannover to our list.

So my holidays were excellent until now, and hopefully they will stay like they are.
On Thursday Caro and I, plus two or three friends are travelling with the train to Hamburg for a day, I am so excited!! We are leaving at 9:03 from Braunschweig and getting there at 12pm, which is a really good travelling time. We are going to buy a Niedersachsen ticket, it means you can travel anywhere in Niedersachsen, which is my state, Bremen and Hamburg with up to five people for any one ticket, for one day.
Then we are going to get the train at nearly 11pm and that means we will get back to Braunschweig at 1am.
I am really excited, because Sabrina is coming, and she is totally nice, and I haven't seen her for ages!
We are probably going to stay in the city and look around, and maybe do some shopping. We also thought it would be cool to go and see the YFU office, but we have no idea if that is anywhere in the city, or if we have to travel really far to go and see it. So, if it is close we are going to go there as well.

And, if anyone has any ideas for what I can print on the back of my Year 10 t-shirt/jumper, please comment with them. I have to decide, but I have no idea what I should write. I want something to do with Germany and my exchange year, or something in German, but I am not sure what!

That's about all for now,